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  • txtn iz gd 4 u

    I seem to be on a roll finding mLearning articles. This one, while not on the mLearning stream directly is one that finds that the SMSpeak (nee textisms) that “kids” use is potentially beneficial to them. In “Exploring the relationship between children’s knowledge of text message abbreviations and school literacy outcomes” Plester, Wood et. al.…

  • Gmail and Facebook tops for Post Sec students

    Not that I’m going to take a marketing document as gospel, but marketers are certainly motivated to find ways to get “in” and prove that their widget is the best. So when I saw this out of eROI, I thought, well of course an email marketer is going to be pushing email, but looking at…

  • Thumb it right and meet in the middle

    In order to communicate a message needs to encoded and decoded in an efficient manner. One of the knocks on SMS is that it might take less time to hammer out, but that it seems to take longer to read. Thankfully now, we have some evidence to this effect.Of course there is some influence of…

  • txt 2 lrn 4 evr stp n g.o.

    One of the stories that I heard a few years back when I was just finishing up my MEd was that students in England were doing their final exams using SMS. I tried many times to try to find that article, but I never could. Now several years later, I have a North American example…

  • txt mpruvz ltrac

    Hehehe… that got you eh? TR’s Kate Baggott has another story about how texting and it’s ‘net related relatives are actually improving literacy (in spite of the A and O level English papers that are written in txt – can’t find a link right now… but it may be in the archives, even though New…